Tom Coburn

Tom Coburn (14 March 1948-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-OK 2) from 3 January 1995 to 3 January 2001 (succeeding Mike Synar and preceding Brad Carson) and a US Senator from 3 January 2005 to 3 January 2015 (succeeding Don Nickles and preceding James Lankford).

Biography
Tom Coburn was born in Casper, Wyoming in 1948, and he ran his own obstetrics practice in Oklahoma, where he also worked as a Baptist deacon. He was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1994 as part of the Republican Revolution, and he served from 1995 to 2001; in 2005, he was elected to the US Senate. He was a fiscal and social conservative, and he denied global warming's existence, opposed deficit spending and appropriation of government spending, opposed abortion, opposed same-sex marriage, opposed embryonic stem cell research, supported term limits, supported gun rights, and supported the death penalty. He resigned in 2015.